Russian Security Firm Kaspersky has announced its own Secure OS, after 14 years of developing it. Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab made the mention in a blog post introducing company’s layer 3 switch powered by Kaspersky OS. Kaspersky believes the OS will be “ideal for applications where a small, optimized and secure …
A sweeping new surveillance regime is to be enshrined in UK law in the coming weeks, after the Investigatory Powers Bill passed through the House of Lords yesterday. All that’s now required for the bill to become the Investigatory Powers Act is the Queen’s approval, a formality known as royal assent. The new law, dubbed …
WordPress.com owner Automattic is making .blog available to the general public as of 21 November, following a somewhat controversial landrush period. Earlier this month, the registry opened domain registrations to non-trademark owners for the seven-day landrush period, but was accused of pre-registering and keeping the best keywords for itself. Automattic responded to the criticism on …
For the second consecutive year, China has been found to be the worst abuser of Internet freedom in the world, according to a report released by human rights watchdog Freedom House. In the 2016 Freedom on the Net survey report released Monday, the watchdog said the Chinese government’s crackdown on free expression under President Xi …
Following its pausing of the use of WhatsApp data in the UK, Facebook has stopped using data taken from its messaging service for advertising across Europe. The social network had come under pressure from the pan-European data protection agency group, the Article 29 Working Party in October. The group of privacy watchdogs said it had …
The exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses has been long coming, the biggest indicator was the September 2015 announcement by the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) that its pool of IPv4 addresses in North America was over. In a recent blog post, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses …
As reported by Reuters.com Access to social media sites Twitter and Whatsapp was blocked in Turkey on Friday, an internet monitoring group said, following the detentions of 11 pro-Kurdish lawmakers in the mainly Kurdish southeast overnight. Access was being blocked by throttling, an expert from the monitoring group Turkey Blocks said, a method of slowing …
On 1 September 2016, an explosion caused a fire on a cargo ship docked in Hamburg, Germany. ICANN’s Public Meeting technical equipment was on board. The ship had departed Helsinki, Finland after ICANN56, and the equipment was bound for Hyderabad, India via Mumbai. ICANN had two containers – a 40-foot and a 20-foot container. It …
A new submarine fiber optic broadband cable project, led by Angola, is set to provide a flood of international Internet bandwidth to countries on the west coast of Africa, including South Africa, when it goes live in mid-2018. The South Atlantic Cable System (Sacs), coupled with the already-under-construction Monet cable – which will link São …
A major cyberattack affected hundreds of websites, including the New York Times, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify, and eBay. The attack was actually centered on Dyn, a New Hampshire-based company that offers a platform to optimize websites’ online performance. This includes monitoring and controlling applications and infrastructure with data and analytics to reroute traffic and ensure end-users …